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Chapter 9. Virtualization
Inclusion of, and Guest Installation Support for, Microsoft Hyper-V Drivers
Integrated Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest installation, and Hyper-V para-virtualized device support in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 on Microsoft Hyper-V allows users to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 as a guest on top of Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors. The following Hyper-V drivers and a clock source have been added to the kernel shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9:
- a network driver (
hv_netvsc) - a storage driver (
hv_storvsc) - an HID-compliant mouse driver (
hid_hyperv) - a VMbus driver (
hv_vmbus) - a util driver (
hv_util) - a clock source (i386:
hyperv_clocksource, AMD64/Intel 64: HYPER-V timer)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 also includes a guest Hyper-V Key-Value Pair (KVP) daemon (
hypervkvpd) that passes basic information, such as the guest IP, the FQDN, OS name, and OS release number, to the host through VMbus.
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